Carrowniskey Races — Two Off the Bend

Young jockeys racing local ponies neck-and-neck on the sand at Carrowniskey Strand during the annual beach races, with Tinkerbell (black mare) surging to victory amid an excited crowd – fine art photography by Wild Atlantic Photography

Red silks, number 2. Green silks, number 7. Two chestnuts close enough to hear each other breathe.

Behind them the day is the day: a crowd on the stones, barriers, a man up on the box, an ambulance waiting the way it should at a beach meeting, high-vis on the sand. Grey sky. No filter.

This is the human picture in the set — the one that says these races belong to a parish, not a brochure. People came out. Someone is taking a bet. Someone is watching their own.

Carrowniskey Strand, Louisburgh, Mayo.

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